Sony Confirms Michael Jackson’s Back Catalogue Has Been Stolen

Hackers have allegedly broken into Sony Records‘ musical files and stolen all of Michael Jackson‘s extensive back catalogue of never before heard recordings. The hack is reported to have come directly from Sony’s PlayStation Network.

“The theft took place in April last year when hackers attacked Sony’s PlayStation Network and stole the personal data of 77 million registered users. The simultaneous copying of over 50,000 music files was discovered by Sony several weeks later, says the Sunday Times, but has only now come to light.”

It’s safe to say everything the late ‘King of Pop’ recorded with Sony is at risk of finding its way illegally online. Sony confirmed to BBC that they paid well over $250 million for the iconic pop singer’s remaining songs.

On Friday March 2, James Marks and James McCormick appeared at Leicester crown court in connection with the security breach, however, both denied any wrongdoings on their parts under the Computer Misuse Act and the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act. Both men are expected to stand trial January 2013. Story developing.

So this happened almost a year ago, but this is just being told to the public now – while the thieves have had a huge advanrage all along. Hopefully they will turn up, but a huge conglomerate like SONY needs to do better.

Good, they’ve already tarnished enough of his legacy with those bogus ass albums. Plus given Michaels disdain for Sony and tommy matola, as a fan I wouldn’t mind one bit if they showed up on the Internet. But I tell ya, this sounds real fishy to me!

MJ wouldn’t have wanted the music released in the first place, but either Sony or the hackers will release it. I’d rather they all get leaked b/c Sony is f***** up for shamelessly trying to cash out on MJ’s trash, inadvertently spitting on his legacy

i just have the feeling that this is just a scheme to halt further record sales to diminish his legacy as the biggest artist dead or alive. they’ve already tried it by claiming releases that were leaked before his death were not actually him. i smell a stinking rat.

This is definitely BS. They invested money to get the unreleased material. Now a decade later music sales have drastically dwindled so they come up with a theft to claim to get their money back through insurance.

SONY’S HANDS ARE SOAKED W’ MICHAEL’S BLOOD!!! WHAT’S STEALING COMPARED TO MURDER??
I HOPE THEY ALL DIE AGONIZING DEATHS – AND THEN ROT IN HELL! PIECES OF s***! TRIED TO ASSASSINATE MICHAEL’S CHARACTER (ALONG WITH THE MONEY-HUNGRY MEDIA)…THEN FINALLY ASSASINATED THE MAN HIMSELF. THEY ARE “DEVILS” JUST LIKE MJ SAID!! f*** SONY! AND AEG FOR THAT MATTER!

“MONEY. MONEY…LIE for IT. SPY for IT. KILL FOR IT. DIE for IT.
So You say it’s trust, but I say it’s just in THE DEVIL’s GAME of GREED and LUST. THEY don’t care. THEY”D DO ME FOR THE MONEY. They don’t care. THEY USE ME FOR THE MONEY.” – MJ